Forward Deployed AI Engineer

Summary

Melior is an AI transformation firm that helps mid-market companies adopt AI through workforce enablement and custom AI workflows. The Forward Deployed AI Engineer will design, build, deploy, and refine AI workflows and agents for clients while collaborating with executives, client teams, program managers, and company leadership.

Responsibilities

• Meeting (virtually) with clients to deeply understand their current work processes, identify pain points, and assess ways AI could help
• Designing, building, and shipping AI workflows and agents. Implementations range in complexity, such as + Custom skills + Low-code automations in Zapier, n8n, or Make + Custom-developed agentic systems, built via Claude Code or Codex, and deployed on the Melior Nexus platform, which simplifies building, deploying and maintaining custom AI apps
• Working alongside client teams to test, refine, and measure these solutions to ensure they genuinely improve their work and create measurable efficiency gains
• Documenting what you learn into straightforward playbooks and resources that we can reuse across future projects
• Collaborating with AI Program managers and Melior leadership on executive level client meetings such as QBRs & AI strategy presentations
• Helping us evolve our offerings and processes - as an early team member, your ideas and experiences will directly shape how we grow and the solutions we deliver

Skills

• Have spent 2-5+ years in roles like solutions engineering, software engineering, technical operations, internal tools, or automation in a fast-paced, dynamic environment. We're looking for experience where you built real things, navigated ambiguity, juggled multiple priorities, and owned outcomes
• Are confident and thoughtful in conversations at all levels of an organization, able to quickly build trust and understand people's genuine needs. Client services experience is a plus
• Are genuinely excited about generative AI and have gotten your hands dirty building with it, whether that's side projects, API experiments, vibe-coding with tools like Claude Code, Cursor, or Lovable, or stitching together workflows in Zapier, n8n, or Make. This is a hard requirement; we want to see what you've built
• Have a structured way of thinking about problems: you're great at framing messy questions, estimating the potential impact of solutions, and organizing your work clearly
• Are organized and proactive—you're good at managing your own projects, deadlines, and client communications in a fast-paced, small-team environment
• Bonus points (but not required!) if you have a formal software engineering background or have shipped production code, though we care more about what you've actually built than the credentials behind it

Qualifications

Must Haves

• Have spent 2-5+ years in roles like solutions engineering, software engineering, technical operations, internal tools, or automation in a fast-paced, dynamic environment. We're looking for experience where you built real things, navigated ambiguity, juggled multiple priorities, and owned outcomes
• Are confident and thoughtful in conversations at all levels of an organization, able to quickly build trust and understand people's genuine needs. Client services experience is a plus
• Are genuinely excited about generative AI and have gotten your hands dirty building with it, whether that's side projects, API experiments, vibe-coding with tools like Claude Code, Cursor, or Lovable, or stitching together workflows in Zapier, n8n, or Make. This is a hard requirement; we want to see what you've built
• Have a structured way of thinking about problems: you're great at framing messy questions, estimating the potential impact of solutions, and organizing your work clearly
• Are organized and proactive—you're good at managing your own projects, deadlines, and client communications in a fast-paced, small-team environment

Nice to Haves

• Bonus points (but not required!) if you have a formal software engineering background or have shipped production code, though we care more about what you've actually built than the credentials behind it

Benefits

• Remote work for the right candidate
• Equity in the company
• A clear pathway to grow into a leadership role